Abstract
After chemical desympathization in rats only 30% of cells remain in the stellate ganglia compared with the control. In young rats desympathized at the age of 2 months pressor responses of the arterial pressure to asphyxia and to femoral nerve stimulation disappear. At the age of 4 months these reflexes are restored. Investigation of the catecholamine distribution in the organs (heart) by a fluorescence histochemical method in rats aged 4 months showed that the number of nerve fibers giving a positive reaction for noradrenalin at the periphery is greater than at the age of 2 months. Electron-microscopic investigation of neurons suggests that growth of axons takes place in nerve cells that remain viable.
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Institute of Child and Adolescent Physiology, Academy of Pedagogic Sciences of the USSR. Second Medical Institute, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 84–90, January–February, 1976.
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Borisov, M.M., Doronin, P.P., Zueva, L.V. et al. Peripheral growth of axons after reduction of the number of nerve cells in sympathetic ganglia. Neurophysiology 8, 73–80 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065242
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